2025 is the perfect time to position your independent optical practice for growth. Optipro, one of Australia’s fastest-growing optical buying groups, can help you seize new opportunities, strengthen your business, and deliver impressive patient care. With a rapidly expanding network of trusted suppliers and exclusive benefits, Optipro membership is free.

TOOLS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Optipro offers the following tools and partnerships to elevate your practice:

Exclusive supplier relationships: Access premium lenses, frames, and eye care solutions at exceptional prices.

Tailored business support: From high-impact marketing resources to specific operational advice, Optipro is dedicated to understanding and supporting your practice’s unique needs and success.

Optimise stock management: Optipro’s stock management solutions help you maintain optimal levels to meet patient demand without tying up unnecessary capital in excess inventory.

Maximise return on investment and profitability: By aligning with high-quality suppliers and maximising your purchasing power, Optipro enables members to increase profitability while maintaining the high standards their patients expect.

Empowering people and culture: Optipro offers ongoing support in areas like staff training, professional development, and creating a culture of collaboration within your practice. By investing in your people, Optipro helps you foster an environment that promotes both personal and business growth.

Industry Networking: Connect with like-minded professionals who share your vision for excellence in independent optics.

AN EXPANDING NETWORK

 Optipro’s growing partner network includes: Opticare, Sunshades Eyewear, Domani Eyewear, Bausch and Lomb, Tokai, Hilco Vision, CooperVision, Capricornia Contact Lens, De Rigo, VMD Eyewear, Frank and Fritz, Frames Etcetera, Rimoptics, and Vision Talent.

In 2025, Optipro will host roadshows in key cities nationwide, providing opportunities to meet these suppliers, discover new products, network with colleagues, and learn more about how Optipro can help your practice flourish.

Visit: optipro.com.au.

Students attending Gelflex’s annual student day at University of Western Australia Optometry School.

Gelflex has been manufacturing quality custom contact lenses for optometrists in Australia and around the world for over 40 years, and is currently Australia’s only disposable lens factory exporting lenses around the world.

With a commitment to supporting the local community, Gelflex supplies soft baby lenses to several children’s hospitals in Australia for families who would ordinarily not be able to afford these lenses. These are supplied well below the cost to manufacture and allow babies to see the world before they need to undergo eye surgery.

Gelflex also works closely with the University of Western Australia (UWA) Optometry School providing free lenses for eligible patients attending the University’s eye clinic who need specialty lenses but don’t have the financial means to purchase them.

The company also hosts an annual student day at the facility in Perth, where
students from the UWA Optometry School learn how lenses are manufactured and hear from key opinion leaders in the industry on a variety of practical topics. The students learn about the importance of the relationship between the laboratory and the optometrist and how they are supported in specialty lens fitting. This Student Day has officially been added to the Bachelor of Optometry Curriculum.

Gelflex has a global presence, with office locations in four countries, allowing the company not only to meet its customers’ needs, but also to embrace opportunities to support local communities in those markets.

Visit: gelflex.com.au.